The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google with an enforcement notice regarding the collection of data by the web firm's Street View cars. The decision follows an investigation into Google which found its collection of ...
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CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management. The research organization's objective is ...
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Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
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DaVita Labs, a unit of US-based DaVita HealthCare Partners and Myriad RBM, a subsidiary of Myriad Genetics, have entered into a research collaboration to conduct protein biomarker discovery research in order to develop and commercialize ...
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Many Metropolitan Police officers are using desktop PCs that take more than half an hour to log on, with experts suggesting that the force is to blame for its failure to develop a long-term IT strategy. John Biggs, chair of the London ...
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Sony's gaming division pulled its latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 Wednesday, after widespread reports that installing it could render the console useless. Gamers took to Twitter and online forums such as Reddit to spread word ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
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Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos. Though analysts say Facebook offered no pre-briefings about the announcement, those interviewed for this ...
While Windows 8 is getting blamed for dismal PC sales, upgrading laptops and desktop systems isn't a priority for business users, according to new research. Businesses are increasing capital spending, but they are directing that money at ...
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The Australian cane industry is enjoying a period of rejuvenation, helped by an increase in foreign investment. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Source: The Australian This year's Australian sugarcane harvest has started in north Queensland ...
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The Finish Thompson range of drum emptying pumps is now available from Michael Smith Engineers with the option of a new high performance, variable speed electric motor which provides 650 watts of continuous power combined with infinitely ...
Hydro One crews across Ontario are replacing 11,000 poles this year across the utility’s 120,000-km distribution system. “This [$82-million] investment is part of an ongoing program to continually assess the condition of our ...
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It may have taken almost two decades, but Tun Thura Thet's investment in one of Asia's poorest countries is finally paying off. "I've been waiting here for 17 years to have this moment," he said, sitting at his office in Yangon, Myanmar. ...
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St. Jude Medical, a medical device manufacturer, has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its next-generation Ellipse and SJM Assura portfolio of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac ...
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On the roof of a medical building in San Francisco, Sprint Nextel has a cell site that's far above the cramped canyons of the city's streets, but despite the wide-open views, space is limited. Sprint shares the roof with other mobile ...
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